George b



(No Model.)

G. B. PILKINGTON. SUSPENDBR BUCKLE.

No. 431,992. Patented July 8. 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE B. PILKINGTON, OF NEV BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO TI-IE TRAUT da IIINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,992, dated July 8, 1890.

Application filed May 1, 1890. Serial No. 350,230. (No model.)

' T0 all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, GEORGE B. PILKINGTON,

a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender-Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buckles for suspenders and to that class of suspender-buckles having cast-offs7 the obj ect being to provide improved means for unhooking the catches thereof, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front or side View of a buckle embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the same drawn in projection with Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section through the middle of the buckle, showing the slide hooked in place and illustratingthe construction of the slidc-detaching device. Fig. 4 is a View similar to Fig. 23, showing the slide in place, but unhooked.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the iigures.

My improved buckle consists of a buckleplate B, constructed with a slide-receiving box D, any suitable means for attaching the said plateto the usual web ofthe suspender, and the slide S, fitting said box, in which it is adapted to be locked and unlocked by means of Iny newly-invented improvements. The means for attaching the plate B to the suspender-Web are shown, consisting of the teeth 2, formed on said' plate, and the lever L, having ears 1G 16, carried by the pivots 4 4, which are formed ou said plate B in a well-known manner. These web-holding devices being old and well known, a more particular description of them or of their Inode of operation will be unnecessary. Slide S has the usual loop for attaching the suspender-straps thereto, the plate or slide proper 7, and the'spring S, usually formed integral with the slide part 7 by a bend at 9. On the lower end and front of the box D there is a hook 5, with which the end of the spring S engages when the slide is in place, as shown in 3, thereby securely locking said slide to the buckle-plate. As a means for detaching said spring-catch 8, I form in the front of the boX D a push-button N, which is movably supported on the lower end of a spring 10. As shown in Fig. 3, said push-button rests on said spring-catch 8 and projects forward of the box D. Vhen wishing to detach the slide S, the user pushes on said button N, thereby closing down the spring-catch 8 out 0f engagement with said hook 5, as shown in Fig. 4, thus permitting said slide to be readily withdrawn from said box D with no other resistance than that offered by the friction of said slide between the back-plate 12 and said but-ton N. In con structn ing buckles having my improvements I form the button N and its supporting-spring 10 integral with the plate B, separating them by cutting the metal of said plate, as indicated by the boundary lines of said spring and push-button, as shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a buckle, the combination, with the slide-box having the hook at the lower end thereof, of the slide having the spring engaging said hook, and a push-button Inovably supported on a yielding arm formed in the front of said box over and bearing on said spring, whereby the spring may be closed for unhooking the slide.

2. In a buckle, the combination, with the buckle-plate having the slide-box D and the hook 5 at the lower end of said box, of the slide S, having the spring 8, whose point engages said hook, and the spring 10, formed in the front of the slide-box and having the push-button at the lower end thereof.

GEORGE B. PILKINGTON.

Vitnesses:

HENRY L. RECKARD, FRANCIS I-I. RICHARDS. 

